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Philippines: Geography, timing made storm worse
2013-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: An unhappy confluence of natural factors made Typhoon Haiyan one of the most ferocious tropical storms to make landfall in recorded history, creating the biggest storm surge since Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. in 2005. Several factors gave the storm in the Philippines its devastating power--torrential rain, a landscape that funneled the water and intensified the surge, and powerful winds with gusts that matched the speed of a race car. "There isn't any other known storm that's made landfall...
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Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines prepares climate change plans for worse to come
2013-11-11 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As one of the world's poorest and least developed countries, the Philippines is handicapped by a chronic lack of resources, poor or non-existent infrastructure, and a far-flung archipelagic geography when dealing with the natural catastrophes that regularly afflict it. But hard-won experience is also forcing Filipino government administrators and agencies, and their international collaborators, to examine and create new strategies for disaster preparedness, response and mitigation that have important...
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These 2 State Health Exchanges Are in Worse Shape Than the Obamacare Website
2013-11-10 03:34:58| Telecom - Topix.net
If you were to start pointing fingers and assigning blame for who may be at fault for the lackluster opening of Obamacare's federally run health exchange, Healthcare.gov, you'd quickly run out of fingers.
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These 2 State Health Exchanges Are in Worse Shape Than the Obamacare Website
2013-11-10 02:55:34| IT Services - Topix.net
If you were to start pointing fingers and assigning blame for who may be at fault for the lackluster opening of Obamacare's federally run health exchange, Healthcare.gov, you'd quickly run out of fingers.
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Report: Warming likely to make bad things worse
2013-11-03 11:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Many of the ills of the modern world starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts. The report uses the word "exacerbate" repeatedly to describe warming's effect on poverty, lack of water, disease and even the causes of war. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue a report next March on how global...
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